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Finding Aid for the Samuel Agnew Diary Photocopies
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Finding Aid for the Samuel Agnew Diary Photocopies

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Copied by and received from staff of the Southern Historical Collection at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1976

Processing Information

Collection processed by Archives and Special Collections staff. Finding aid encoded
by Kathryn Michaelis, January 2012.

Additions

No further additions are expected to this collection.

Subject Terms

Formats

Biographical Note

Agnew grew up and attended college and seminary in Due West, S.C. In 1852 he moved
to Mississippi, and thereafter lived in the northeastern part of the state, chiefly
in Tippah and Lee counties, where he was an Associate Reformed Presbyterian minister,
teacher, farmer, and prominent local citizen.

(Taken from the Southern Historical Collection finding aid)

Scope and Content Note

The collection contains a detailed diary of Agnew’s thoughts, experiences, and activities;
neighborhood news; public events, particularly as they affected the locality; relations
with slaves and free blacks; the Civil War, during which he was in the area of operations
of both armies; Reconstruction, which was tumultuous in his vicinity; the Ku Klux
Klan; local and regional church affairs; farming and leadership in the local Grange;
major natural events; frequent travels to Memphis and to other parts of Mississippi;
and many other aspects of personal and public life that came within his view. There
are occasional gaps in the diary before 1873 and after 1883.

(Taken from the Southern Historical Collection finding aid)

User Information

Preferred Citation

Samuel Agnew Diary Photocopies, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library,
The
University of Mississippi

Access Restrictions

The Samuel Agnew Diary Photocopies are open for research.

Copyright Restrictions

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the
making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under
certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized
to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions
is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other
than private study, scholarship or research.” If a user makes a request for,
or
later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,”
that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

Related Material

The original materials from which this collection was photocopied are housed in the
Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A description of the collection can be found at http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/a/Agnew,Samuel_A.html.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged chronologically.

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